Famous quotes containing the words jack, london and/or beauty:
“This is the house that Jack built.
This is the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 13)
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“The body dies; the bodys beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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